Certain forms of racial discrimination may be directed towards women specifically because of their gender, such as sexual violence committed against women members of particular racial or ethnic groups in detention or during armed conflict; the coerced sterilization of indigenous women; abuse of women workers in the informal sector or domestic workers employed abroad by their employers.
Determinadas formas de discriminación racial pueden dirigirse contra las mujeres en calidad de tales como, por ejemplo, la violencia sexual cometida contra las mujeres de determinados grupos raciales o étnicos en detención o durante conflictos armados; la esterilización obligatoria de mujeres indígenas; el abuso de trabajadoras en el sector no estructurado o de empleadas domésticas en el extranjero.